working as a pharmaceutical rep.

And if an ALABAMA SORORITY thinks you’re too racist...

The name Harley Barber recommends your dumb parents theory.

Evidently autocorrect passed you by. You should work on that during the rest of your life.

Yeah, I agree with this a lot. Trump grew up racist, he had it instilled in him, and continues to revel in that worldview. Maybe all the regular folks who agree with him about shitholes and such aren’t primary racists, but it’s hard to make that argument about Trump. He’s actively courted the most racist people to be…

I have a pretty basic gmail and this occasionally happens to me- but often they’re fun. Last year I got an offer to interview as a pastry chef at one of the world’s best restaurants. I also frequently get emails from a UK travel program for troubled teens, reminding me to fill out permission slips. Lately I’ve been…

Spot. On.

I’ve had to restrain myself, because I’m getting waaaay too into it and she’s getting weirded out. Last night she said, “mom, I want to talk about this more but really I just need to go to bed.”

Well, in positive history of feminism news, my 9th grader is writing a research paper—the title, “Sojourner Truth and the birth od Intersectional Feminism.” I can’t even type it without tearing up, I’m so proud.

You are so very right. Or even who feminist theorists are. They certainly aren’t named Catherine Deneuve.

Honestly, I don’t see where this article successfully demonstrates that this is a second-wave problem. I have a lot of problems with some of the second-wave spokeswomen, but Roiphe Jr., Merkin, or freaking Catherine Deneuve (??) are not them. If some of the real 2nd wave thought leaders have expressed that about…

Do you think it’s their ages? I guess I don’t know how old Roiphe is, but it seems like people assume that women of a certain age must be 2nd-wavers.

They don’t recognize themselves in this feminism because they are not feminists. Roiphe, Merkin, Deneauve, etc. all exploit the patriarchy for their personal gain and can’t extend their imaginations to anyone else’s experience. That’s not feminism of any wave.

Oh I work for a non-governmental organization. I’m free to express myself politically as long as I don’t represent it as being part of my work for my company. There are definitely frustrations associated with the nature of the work, but there are also rewards—the work is substantively interesting and many of the…

Having a well-tended personal brand and being a successful business leader are not the same thing. These fawning profiles of “She-e-os” who haven’t had any sustained success (looking at you, Elizabeth Holmes) just detracts from actual female CEOs of large, publicly traded established corporations, especially when…

Yes, I totally agree. I think this is a case where we can believe her, agree that she played an important role in exposing a predator, but then acknowledge that she’s not really helping the others by publicly indulging her anger. I hope she gets some space to deal with her trauma privately.

I wish I could tell you different. My two direct superiors are women, too, and they work as hard as possible to make sure the men feel good about themselves while the women clean up the messes they make. And any time they do something that would get me fired, I hear, “but he’s such a nice guy...”

Luckily, UrgentPivot is learning to be one!

My god. Just reading this makes me feel better, since the last 9 months have my life have all been about them gaslighting me because I’ve “taken” something from them. And now one of them wants me to step in and save his butt on a project he’s totally screwed up. Ugh.

The answer is the my boss is “out to get all the men.”